Watch more of .local London 2026 → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4RCxklHWZ9tH01MTlChYwUqN8Cm2tl2r Speakers: Afi Gbadago, Senior Developer Advocate, MongoDB Join us for an interactive session that earns you the MongoDB Overview Skill Badge and shows how MongoDB helps you build modern applications. In this architectural overview, you’ll learn how MongoDB’s flexible schema helps teams launch quickly and adapt as requirements evolve. We’ll also cover the core mechanics of replication and sharding. Features that make it possible to scale applications and maintain high availability. Together, these capabilities explain why MongoDB is trusted for data-intensive workloads and modern AI use cases. By the end of the session, you’ll understand MongoDB’s key building blocks and walk away with a Skill Badge you can showcase on your professional networks. 00:00:00 - Introduction & Workshop Overview 00:00:40 - The GenAI Value Problem: Why AI Systems Fail 00:01:40 - Stateless vs. Stateful: Why AI Agents Need Memory 00:02:43 - Accessing the Jupyter Notebook Lab Space 00:03:32 - Framing AI Memory Around Human Cognition 00:04:09 - Deep Dive: Short-Term Memory & Session History 00:04:23 - Deep Dive: Semantic, Procedural, & Episodic Long-Term Memory 00:04:49 - Working Memory & The LLM Scratchpad Explained 00:05:33 - Lab Exercise 1: Setting Up MongoDB Collections & Indexes 00:05:58 - CRUD Principles Applied to AI Memory Systems 00:06:23 - Designing & Extracting Memory Traces 00:07:12 - Data Modeling for AI Memories in JSON/BSON 00:07:56 - Retrieval Strategies: Text Search vs. Vector Search 00:08:45 - Implementing Auto-Embeddings on MongoDB Atlas 00:08:59 - Maximizing Accuracy with Hybrid Search 00:09:11 - Leveraging Aggregation Pipelines for Multi-Stage Retrieval 00:09:35 - Updating Memory: Overwriting vs. Temporal Versioning 00:09:59 - Deleting Memory: TTL Indexes & Performance Pruning 00:10:44 - Coding a Gemini-Powered AI Assistant Function Subscribe to the MongoDB for Developers YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MongoDBDevelopers?sub_confirmation=1 Sign-up for a free cluster → https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register Subscribe to MongoDB YouTube→ https://mdb.link/subscribe Visit Mongodb.com → https://mdb.link/MongoDB Read the MongoDB Blog → https://mdb.link/Blog Read the Developer Blog → https://mdb.link/developerblog MongoDB for Developers YouTube Channel → https://www.youtube.com/@MongoDBDevelopersSubscribe to the MongoDB for Developers YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MongoDBDevelopers?sub_confirmation=1

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